Gerard Gallant met with the media on MSG following the loss to Vegas and said (NYR, MSG):

• On the game, “the first 15 minutes wasn’t great, but after that I thought we played real, real good hockey the rest of the game.  They definitely the jump on early in the game, but we played really well the rest of the way.”

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First Period:

• Brett Howden (3) Assists: Keegan Kolesar (9), William Carrier (4)

Second Period:

• Mika Zibanejad (7) Assists: K’Andre Miller (3), Chris Kreider (8)
• Chris Kreider (18) (Power Play) Assists: Mika Zibanejad (18), Ryan Strome (15)

Third Period:

• Dylan Coghlan (3) Assists: Brett Howden (5), Nicolas Hague (10)

Overtime:

Shootout:

• Nicolas Roy: Stopped
• Kaapo Kakko: Stopped
• Evgenii Dadonov: Stopped
• Mika Zibanejad: Stopped
• Jonathan Marchessault: SCORES
• Ryan Strome: Stopped

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6:31 PM:  Artemi Panarin will not play tonight. (MSG)

1 PM: Artemi Panarin did not skate this morning at the morning skate. (Staple)

Igor Shesterkin took part in the morning skate and shared a net with Keith Kinkaid. (Staple)

Gerard Gallant spoke after the morning skate and said (NYR):

• Any update on Panarin, “not really, day-to-day.”
• What do you want to see from Chytil, “just play good hockey, work hard, play good hockey. I’m not going to get into specifics, that is between me and Fil, go out and play good hockey.”

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Gerard Gallant met with the media after the win over Arizona and said (MSG, NYR):

• On Panarin, “minor, lower-body, day-to-day.”
• Are you confident in that, “yea, but who knows? But we don’t…”
• Was Chytil a healthy scratch, “he was a scratch.”
• Why, “We got one extra player and Kegger was ready to go and decided, coaches decision to put him in there.”
• Was it performance based to bench Chytil, “they usually are.”
• What more do you want to see from Chytil, “Can we talk about the game, please? Seriously? We won a big….like, talk about the game and then maybe at the end I’ll talk about Fil a little bit.”

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12:08AM: Gerard Gallant said that Artemi Panarin’s injury is “minor, lower-body, day-to-day.” (MSG)

Asked if he was confident in that, Gallant said “Yea, but, who knows, we don’t….”

Panarin left the game after playing a shift of 1:52 early in the second period.

First Period:

• Loui Eriksson (1) Assists: Ilya Lyubushkin (5), Clayton Keller (12)

Second Period:

• Kaapo Kakko (4) Assists: Mika Zibanejad (17), Chris Kreider (5)

Third Period:

• Clayton Keller (7) (Power Play) Assists: Nick Schmaltz (3), Liam O’Brien (2)
• Mika Zibanejad (6) Assists: Chris Kreider (6), Adam Fox (26)
• Kaapo Kakko (5) Assists: Ryan Strome (14), Chris Kreider (7)

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